Sabriel by Garth Nix Published by Harper Collins ¶ 1995.
Sabriel is a story of heroic romance and a bond between father and daughter. Sabriel is of about 491 pages long.
Sabriel was born in The Old Kingdom, her father was Abhorsen. She grew up in Ancelstierre at Wyverly College, while her father, who still lived in The Old Kingdom, came to visit her twice a year. This autumn he never came all day. Late in the night a friend of Sabriels came running through the door of her room. There was a disturbance behind a tower door and Sabriel got there quickly. It was a creature, but he was in death. Sabriel went into the realm of death to find the creature. The creature was holding a sack, she heard her father's voice "take the sack" so she grabbed it out of the creature's hands and returned to life. In the sack she found her fathers sword and charter bells. She left Wyverly College to go The Old Kingdom and find out why her father was dead, and bring him back to life.
Sabriel crossed the wall to go to The Old Kingdom. She made it to her father's house but he was not there. She found a cat there he addressed himself as Mogget. Mogget told Sabriel that her father had gone to Belisaere and that they (Mogget and Sabriel) could fly the Paperwing not to far from the house. When they got to the Paperwing Sabriel cast a spell and the engine less aircraft took off. Sabriel remembered that she had to land the aircraft before the sun set, or the Paperwing would crash. Just as she started to land the sun set and her landing was uncontrollable but she safely hit the ground but she skidded all the way into a hole about four hundred feet deep. She woke up injured and Mogget had al ready found a tunnel. They followed the tunnel until it ended in another hole two hundred feet deeper but it had a spring. There were lots of ships there all of them standing there. One ship had a perfect carving of a figurehead so life like.
